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Advanced social skills and elementary programming?

The "Countess Lovelace School of Young Ladies", where you learn proper ballroom etiquette and the language of the fan, plus a bit of SQL to work with your wardrobe database?

(Solving the "I've got nothing to wear" problem with a few self joins)

This made me laugh aloud. Nicely done.

Isn’t the main reason we are bad at these things because we don’t really care for them. I’m not suggesting we are asexual but that we don’t hold flirting etc. in very high regard.

That's a shame, it's a hell of a lot of fun!

I doubt it. I think it's safe to say that most people pine for social skills if they perceive they lack them. Perhaps controversial, but I'd wager that most of the time resentment towards a social concept like flirting is really just a consequence of defeatism.

I think most people are bad at flirting, not just hackers.

Like a Hogwarts for hackers.